Hi, I’m Carlos.
I’m building Godely and writing Patterns of Reality, essays on why systems work the way they do.
Patterns of Reality
Notes for understanding the systems, cycles and incentives shaping reality.
- 16HumansAI makes software cheap. What stays scarce is people’s attention to each other.
- 15SignalWhy some people say in three sentences what takes others twenty minutes.
- 14ArchetypesJung’s map of the mind, and what your strongest reactions say about you.
- 13MaxxingWhat we optimize once survival is handled, and why it feels hollow.
- 12ErgodicityWhy a bet that wins on average can still ruin you.
- 11ReflexivityIf AI does the work, who earns the wages that buy what it makes?
- 10ArbitrageWhy the biggest gains come from switching systems early.
- 09IntentsSystems where you say what you want and the system works out how.
- 08CriticalityWhy suppressing small crises builds up a big one.
- 07ChemotonWhat the simplest living system needs, and why death is built in.
- 06Path DependenceWhy the first solution sticks long after its problem is gone.
- 05Degrees of FreedomRules fail when the world has more moving parts than the rulebook.
- 04AdsHow ads went from something you chose to see to constant interruption.
- 03Non-DelegationIf someone can act for you without permission, you don’t have control.
- 02EnlightenmentThe three questions a second Enlightenment has to answer.
- 01AnacyclosisWhy every political order decays once its founding mission is done.